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h i casÃŸsj^aninr r / largest morning circulation tojgjngv \~ circulation books open to all \ vol xl no 41 a m friday Chicago february 7 1913 friday resistereo in prtpf dtsif cfnt delivered b carrie u 8 pmtent offlei rr.lv_.c v_*l l 1 30 centj per mon i supreme court declares vote machines legal _ in use in april fir * tribunal never held other j wise ruling last fall ap |; plying only to nov 5 polls and due to blanket ballot vote device at every poll urged by baldwin the recount in the hoyne ; cunnea contest has convinced me i that the voting machine should ; he used at all elections if a vot . lug machine had been used in place of the paper ballot at all of > the precincts that have been ; counted in the contest we could i have saved four-fifths of the time \ that has been consumed judge jesse baldwin in an interview toting machines are legal the Illinois supreme court said so yesterday the machines owned by the city will be nsed at the coming democratic aldermanic elec tion no paper ballots will be supplied in the precincts where the machines are ta il tailed the decision giten by the court yester day merely was an elucidation exclusive use of the machines always has been legal snd fne court never intended to be under stood as taking any other position at the request of the election board and for the benefit of persons and institutions that could not or vould not understand the ruling made last fall the court ex plained that ruling to make sure that critics of the machines would have no further exense for misrepresentation the jtourt unanimously ordered written into tlie edict november 5 191 blanket ballot the reason i this amendment makes clearer what was plain to the election commissioners and thinking persons before that the order to supplement the machines with ballots ap plied only to last kali's election the rea ton it was made to apply to that election jwas that the ballot was about the most cumbersome affair ever devised since man began to vote and that persons of slow ; intellect might have trouble handling so i many names on an unfamiliar machine â– within the one-minute limit , everybody knew that was the court's â– attitude but the knowledge did not pre vent the pharisees club and other so , called agencies ot reform from proclaim ing the supreme court knocks out the . toting machines i the supreme court's action to-day re moves the last suggestion of a shadow from the voting machines said chief clerk william h stuart of the election board it is the final silencing blow to those interests and elements that sought by every device at their command from ridicule to misstatement to nullify the efforts of earnest men to insure honest j elections and quick accurate counts to the j people of Chicago shorter tickets probable there was nothing cryptic about the de cision last fall that was hulled as a de feat for voting machines the tremend ous number of names on the ballot was the reason the court as a precautionary measure ordered ballots put alongside the [ machines it is unlikely that there ever | will be another baiiut as long as that one i the present agitation : : a shorter ballot | is bound to bear fruit and besides thej situation in november was exceptional â– at that the court heid that a man of | ( average intelligence cjuld vote the involved ticket in one minute the election hoard ksked the court for an elucidation so that i the matte might become of record plain | ( enough io cud the campaign of sophistry j that has been waged against the machines ! . is the court gave by writing into thej i-ecisiuu that it applied only to the election Â«_ november *Â», wl2 i - the matter was taken to springfield , ft-jiotly it was nut expected that a de-i dsiou would be forthcoming so soon or ] tue board would have prepared the ma > chines for use iu the primary february 3 â€¢) the machines uovvever will be used ex ; i ciusivcly iu tcu wards at the aldermanic i election april 1 no paper ballots will be supplied where they are set up the machines probably will be seut to t_m same wards that had then last fall but requests for them have come from other wards prejudice against them is last disappearing among voters who are ac ijuainttd wuli them the ' machine is au instrument tot ix pure ballot the muddle i jai has been disclosed in the lest recount or state's attorney has caused election ot . betels iu many precincts to ask that ma-j eulnes be l.ttt to then â€” Â« november fifteen precincts of the : econd ward were counted on the ma vnines iu twenty-two minutes in the state's attorney contest it has required ;â– â€¢_ ia>s to c-'unt the paper ballots from iuur wards | extra webb's sweetheart captured may lead to slayer's arrest katie vaiaire taken in saloon will be questioned concerning bandit's whereabouts acting on information furnished by the examiner detective sergeant ernest j payne and detectives sheehy and sullivan of captain halpin's staff raided the saloon of morris feinberg 1621 south wabash avanue and took a girl known as katie vaiaire into custody the vaiaire girl is said to be the one woman of all the companions of robert teddy webb slayer of detective peter hart who could exert any real influence over the bandit the feinberg saloon is directly under the flat of michael cas sella in whose home detective hart was murdered the vaiaire girl admitted to the officers who captured her that she knew frank mcerlane a member of the webb band of automobile robbers and that she was friendly with webb other characters in the levee district have said the vaiaire girl was the real sweetheart of webb and that he would in the end return to ber after detective payne had taken the girl to the bureau she was bundled into a taxi cab and rushed to the hyde park station to be held it was said for questioning by captain patrick j lavin and lieutenant hogan she is to be confronted by belle hastings and cassella at the station this morning koetters wanted as slayer seen in south race man saj%the met suspect in saratoga hotel killing in charleston s c john b koettÂ«s wanted for the mur der of mrs emma kraft on november 14 nt the saratoga hotel is now at charleston 8 c i have talked with him that statement was made to lieutenant zimmer of the detective bureau last night by george m palmer who says he has just come from charleston the police of charleston have been informed by wire i was running a book on the races said palmer i knew koetters through the bets he made he was living at a hotel there with a girl named elsie la retta he was going under the name of george m price finally he lost all his money and wanted to borrow from me he admitted he was koetters palmer was shown a picture of koet ters and identified it as that of the man he knew at charjeston 20 lost as schooner goes down off panama j twelve passengers including priest die two survivors resch shore i i sp.cul cable to the examiner j colon panama feb 6 by the siuk jing to-cay of the schooner granada off | greytown twenty persons are known to i have been drowned and the death list may reach twice that number among ithe kiiown dead are twelve passengers one jof whom was rather antonio a priest well known in the zone ; the captain of the schooner and most of his crew went down with the vessel j two survivors were seen floating ashore ! but they have not been reached to give the story of the accident ineffectual at tempts to get in communication with the wireless station at blneflelds have been luiade at intervals all evening i from best information the wreck took place in the estuary of the san juan the scene of severn disastrous accidents in the pest few years most of the crew | were uatlves of central america mrs.clinch smith about to hewed dangerously ill ; former Chicago girl made widow by titanic disaster 1 stricken in london suitor at her bedside ; a sylvestre clafford michi * gan fiance in constant at j tendance at her hotel soma cable to the examiner london feb 6 mrs james clinch ! smith of new york formerly bertha lud ; ington barnes of Chicago and a widow . through the titanic disaster is seriously ill at the grand hotel here it ls stated that she is a victim of phthisis and little ' hope is held out for her recovery the illness of mrs smith following so â– soon upon the world-stirring tragedy ln which she was a conspicuous figure prob ably will bring to a close a new romance ' of her life iu which another had a dra i matic close with the death of her husband [ then he went down with hundreds of other brave men in the sinking of the giant liner mrs smith was shortly to marry albert sylvestre clafford of adrian mich mr . clafford who is at present in london is deeply distressed over the illness of mrs [ smith and is constant in attendance at her hotel in order to tisit her whenever her condition will permit him to be re 1 celved even for a few minutes it is be , lieved that if her condition shows improve ! ment the wedding will be hurried iu order ! that they may travel together in the hope of restoring mrs smith to health lived in paris for years for years mrs smith whose husband was very wealthy has made her home abroad chiefly in paris she was fond of music and art while her husband was de ' voted to the hunting held and the lite of a country squire and could not be won away from his historic home in smithtown long island where he maintained his stables and kennels and entertained in lavish style the long separation of mr and mrs smith led to a report that there would be a legal separation but each denied that there had even beeu a thought of such actiou mr smith waited in his long island home with his town house in new york closed and boarded up for the time when mrs smith would tire of music and art and rejoin him in this country then early last year he went abroad for the purpose of wooing his wife again and winning her consent to return to smith . town j...e suit of the husband was successful he was overjoyed and told the good news to all his friends in paris he left mrs smith packing up in her paris home when he sailed for america on the titanic to prepare for her home coming death prevents meeting mr smith was one of the happiest of the gay company aboard the great liner | when she was speeding westward then came the crash in the dark and mr i smith in company with other men of his i stamp saw the lifeboats with their bur den of women pull away as they waited death on the deck of the sinking liner j in paris mrs smith read the dread news that girdled the world and put two great ' countries in mourning the name of her > husband was in the roll of the dead the < i shock prostrated her later she made a 1 i voyage across the sea to attend memorial ' i services for ht-r husband at smithtowu ' ! then in company with her brother nei i son ludington barnes she paid a visit ' to her old home in Chicago there she ( announced her intention of making her i home in paris and on her return to new | 1 i york gave instructions to let the town ] < | house that had coine to her through her j i i husband's will leaving her the bulk of his ' j?^.000.o0o estate < back in paris mrs smith found a sym pathetic friend in mr clafford who vir â– tnally makes his home abroad he was ' very attentive and it became known to ' their friends in society in paris and lon â– don that they probably would be married j i at tho end of the widow's period of mourn i ' tng mrs smith's heaith began to fall ' and ou a visit to london a few days ago * she was stricken mr clafford hastened hers when he heard the news both he ! and mrs smith"s friends hope that tha . diagnosis of the physicians may pi-ove \ wrong and tbat she may be restored to ' health senator cullom is ill washington feb t friends of sen ator shelby m cullom of Illinois oldest member of the senate in point of service j and next to the oldest in years ; were | alarmed to-day at reports of his illness \ the senator left the senate yesterday will ; a se ere cold and last night was unable j to attend tho dinner given in his honor j by representative william b mckijiiley of j Illinois to the republican members 1 of the Illinois delegation although dr ' â€¢/,. t sowers who is attending senator pullom announced that his patient will be out in a day oi two apprehension was filt that complications might develop due ' to the 'â– â– senator's age scuator cullom 1 in his eighty fo'jrth year v ' noted beauty arrested will sue for 150,000 gustav myers accused mrs j h otter declares rich insurance man has per secuted her suits for damages aggregating 150,000 will be filed to-day in consequence of the arrest last night of mrs jessie hildebrandt otter at a fashionable apartment house at 4120 prairie avenue the woman is the wife of j wortham otter she is only twenty-four years old and so beautiful that she has been compared favorably with ot ter's first wife who was miss jouett lee one of the tasters who were called the keutucky beauties among whom was linda lee thomas wife of e r thomas the noted new york clubman the charge against mrs ottor is font she stole 240 from the purse of gustav myers in the wellington hotel on de cember 10 1012 behind mrs otter's sweeping declaration that she never was with myers in the wellington hotel there lies a strange story of alleged persecutions and the basis of the 150,000 damage suits to be filed io-day a telegram received last night by the examiner . from its correspondent at el reno okla gave the first public inkling in Chicago of the peculiar actions of myers her arrest expected it was learned then fcr the first time that mrs otter was arrested in el reno on myers complaint but that she was re leased after several days because myers refused to furnish the funds necessary to extradite her shortly after midnight last night mrs otter with her husband and a party of friends stepped out of the apartment house it 4128 prairie avenue mrs otter was j a i once placed under arrest by detectives ! stephen 1 ijarry and frank j kynn she | fainted when she was shown the warrant and it became necessary to take her into a house near by while her husband pre pared to get a bondsman i am not in the least surprised by this arrest said otter i had expected it ' the hour selected for it however doesj seem strange 1 as for the arrest i know all about it and so do ray lawyers oustav myers has : been for weeks traducing slandering and persecuting my wife i shall hie three suits against him the first will be for an attempt to alienate the affections of my wife the second will be for false and mrs jessie hildebrandt otter noted beauty who was arrested on a charge of talcing 240 from rich insurance man wife sees ii man in film scene discovers husband believed lost in woods marching in Chicago parade â€¢â– i â€¢ lansing micb feb 6 while there was a temporary lull in business at the nickelodeon where she was employed as cashier mrs mary brownell of st charles paused for a minute a few days ago to look at the picture that was being thrown upon the canvas the scene was a pic torial review of the big republican parade held in Chicago during the republican convention last summer in the front rani of thc marchers there was a face that appeared familiar and to mrs brownell whose husband was sup posed to have been lost in the north woods while following a deer trail several years ago it brought a ray of hope again and again she watched this par ticular figure as thc film was shown and finally she became convinced that the one marcher at the bead of the column was the husband she had mourned as dead a ; tiny section of the film showing the best i likeness of the man was brought to lan i siug by representative nash and was en larged by a local photographer the result was startling and represen ; tative nasi declared to his legislative i friends that there w-ns absolutely no mis taking the identify of the missing ; browuel it is thought that days of exposure and hunger iu the north woods caused brownell's mind to become deranged and that when finally rescued he had uo knowl edge of liis name or previous home it is plunued to send the enlarged pv ture of the missing man to police agencies and newspapers in all parts of the lulled states in an effort to locate bun mrs brownell was a bride of only a few mouths when her husband who was a popular railway employe at st charles disappeared searching pusses were organ lied and thousands of dollars were spent in an effort to locate him or at least ind the body all efforts along this line failed and it was generally believed that brownell waa dead a tew weeks after brownell's disappearance a baby was born and the child has grown to believe that its father's body is resting beneath tho pine trees of the north - harrison gives council bill which will insure nonpartisan elections judiciary committee expected to back mayor's measure which abolishes party circles prevents corruption and insures fairness to all i salient features of bill for nonpartisan elections 1 the act will be in force only in such cities and villages as adopt it by a referendum vot e 2 party circles party names and party platforms are prohibited from being printed upon the ballots to be sed at any primary or election for municipal officers including judges of city courts and the municipal c ourt of Chicago 3 the election of judges of city courts including judges of the municipal court of Chicago are to be held in april on the same day with the election of all municipal officers 4 primaries for the nomination of all municipal officers are to be held four 4 weeks before the election 5 persons desiring to have their names printed upon the primary ballots must file a statement of candidacy together with the petitions of not less than two 2 per cent nor more than four 4 per cent of the total number of ballots cast for municipal officers at the last precedin g municipal election 6 provision is made for a canvass to verify the fact that the petitions for nomination were properly signed by duly quali fied electors 7 persons receiving a majority of votes at the primary will b declared elected this obviates ths necessity of pre with the election for that particular office 8 the ballots will be so printe d and distributed that each candi date for each office will appear at the top of the ballot as nearly as practicable an equ al number of times throughout the primary and regular election 9 the bill as drafted does not in any manner interfere witn the election laws now in force in the state of Illinois it is de signed that if it is adopted b y any city or village its provisions will not supersede the electi on laws now in force in such cities and villages and in respect to those features not touched upon by this draft the general election laws will remain in full force and effect the nonpartisan election bill drafted at the instance of mayor harrison and intended to remove all party designations from municipal elec tions work reforms in the primary lav and strengthen the judiciary was received by the city council last night the bill was referred to the judiciary committee the next council meeting was set for friday night so that the committee may consider thai bill and report at that session it is hoped that the legislature may act upon the bill in time for it to be submitted to the people at the april eleo tion under the proposed law the party circle would be eliminated and ail municipal officials elected solely on a basis of efficiency and experience this would eliminate not only the present party names but any other party names which might be used to designate groups supporting any set of can didates it is further intended to do away with the evils and scandals which have followed the present system of primary nomination by petition tho new law would have the signature of each voter signing the petition of a prospective candidate before the primaries entered on a single card frauds bring drastic punishment these would be arranged as a card system as to wards and precincts drastic punishment is provided for the use of false signatures and for other frauds this system would provide for the first time an opportunity to i scrutinize primary petitions with any hope of results in presenting the bill to the council mayor harrison said this council has for many years been the most efficient and progressive municipal legislative body i have known in our nation to my mind it would come with peculiar force for your honorable body to take action in enabling Chicago to join in with pioneers among the great citizens of the united states in abandoning the wornout methods of the past is it not time to turn our faces to the light and give Chicago a city gov ernment modern up to date and in thorough sympathy with the advanced thought of the day i subscribe to the belief that our cities will never have thoroughly effi i cient local government until their officers shall be elected on the sole b , i3 u j of individual capacity training and fitness t | would divorce jurists from politics the bill would not become operative in any city until adopted by i'^mfl i citizens by a referendum vote the mayor recommends that later a bill i be presented taking all judicial officers out of politics by a similar method v i a person desiring to become a candidate before the primaries must 1 : produce petitions signed by not less than 2 or more than 4 per cent of the i [ voters of the governmental unit in which he is a candidate the minimum 1 here is four times the number of signers now required this is to prevent a flood of candidates who induce a few persons to sign petitions thus clogging the ballot a limit on the number of names is fixed to prevent a candidate receiving so many signatures that there are none left for other candidates if a primary candidate receives at the primary a majority of the votea cast for the office to which he aspires he is declared elected lf none has a majority the two highest candidates are the candidates at the election thii system will materially shorten the ballots both at the primary and at elec tion provision is made for the rotation of the names of candidates on fjio ballots so that each candidate shall have his name at the op of his column continued on 2d page 4th column j "~ hicago and vicinity â€” generally fair friday and â– st saturday not much change tl in temperature moderate c aj&7 Â»Â» * westerly winds a^j-stsll itange of temperatures jester r4__3_r2ji highest 22 n'^r^^sa lowest 6 ~Â» mf \ average 14 i c lj - every day the want ads in the ex aminer bring together those who hava wants and those who can supply â€¢ the wants if you want re sults put your ad in the examiner phone main 5000 4^k the association of american adrei fcra'jj timers has examined and certified to hji_r the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained in the association's report only are guaranteed association of american advertisers ho ssoo 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h i casÃŸsj^aninr r / largest morning circulation tojgjngv \~ circulation books open to all \ vol xl no 41 a m friday Chicago february 7 1913 friday resistereo in prtpf dtsif cfnt delivered b carrie u 8 pmtent offlei rr.lv_.c v_*l l 1 30 centj per mon i supreme court declares vote machines legal _ in use in april fir * tribunal never held other j wise ruling last fall ap |; plying only to nov 5 polls and due to blanket ballot vote device at every poll urged by baldwin the recount in the hoyne ; cunnea contest has convinced me i that the voting machine should ; he used at all elections if a vot . lug machine had been used in place of the paper ballot at all of > the precincts that have been ; counted in the contest we could i have saved four-fifths of the time \ that has been consumed judge jesse baldwin in an interview toting machines are legal the Illinois supreme court said so yesterday the machines owned by the city will be nsed at the coming democratic aldermanic elec tion no paper ballots will be supplied in the precincts where the machines are ta il tailed the decision giten by the court yester day merely was an elucidation exclusive use of the machines always has been legal snd fne court never intended to be under stood as taking any other position at the request of the election board and for the benefit of persons and institutions that could not or vould not understand the ruling made last fall the court ex plained that ruling to make sure that critics of the machines would have no further exense for misrepresentation the jtourt unanimously ordered written into tlie edict november 5 191 blanket ballot the reason i this amendment makes clearer what was plain to the election commissioners and thinking persons before that the order to supplement the machines with ballots ap plied only to last kali's election the rea ton it was made to apply to that election jwas that the ballot was about the most cumbersome affair ever devised since man began to vote and that persons of slow ; intellect might have trouble handling so i many names on an unfamiliar machine â– within the one-minute limit , everybody knew that was the court's â– attitude but the knowledge did not pre vent the pharisees club and other so , called agencies ot reform from proclaim ing the supreme court knocks out the . toting machines i the supreme court's action to-day re moves the last suggestion of a shadow from the voting machines said chief clerk william h stuart of the election board it is the final silencing blow to those interests and elements that sought by every device at their command from ridicule to misstatement to nullify the efforts of earnest men to insure honest j elections and quick accurate counts to the j people of Chicago shorter tickets probable there was nothing cryptic about the de cision last fall that was hulled as a de feat for voting machines the tremend ous number of names on the ballot was the reason the court as a precautionary measure ordered ballots put alongside the [ machines it is unlikely that there ever | will be another baiiut as long as that one i the present agitation : : a shorter ballot | is bound to bear fruit and besides thej situation in november was exceptional â– at that the court heid that a man of | ( average intelligence cjuld vote the involved ticket in one minute the election hoard ksked the court for an elucidation so that i the matte might become of record plain | ( enough io cud the campaign of sophistry j that has been waged against the machines ! . is the court gave by writing into thej i-ecisiuu that it applied only to the election Â«_ november *Â», wl2 i - the matter was taken to springfield , ft-jiotly it was nut expected that a de-i dsiou would be forthcoming so soon or ] tue board would have prepared the ma > chines for use iu the primary february 3 â€¢) the machines uovvever will be used ex ; i ciusivcly iu tcu wards at the aldermanic i election april 1 no paper ballots will be supplied where they are set up the machines probably will be seut to t_m same wards that had then last fall but requests for them have come from other wards prejudice against them is last disappearing among voters who are ac ijuainttd wuli them the ' machine is au instrument tot ix pure ballot the muddle i jai has been disclosed in the lest recount or state's attorney has caused election ot . betels iu many precincts to ask that ma-j eulnes be l.ttt to then â€” Â« november fifteen precincts of the : econd ward were counted on the ma vnines iu twenty-two minutes in the state's attorney contest it has required ;â– â€¢_ ia>s to c-'unt the paper ballots from iuur wards | extra webb's sweetheart captured may lead to slayer's arrest katie vaiaire taken in saloon will be questioned concerning bandit's whereabouts acting on information furnished by the examiner detective sergeant ernest j payne and detectives sheehy and sullivan of captain halpin's staff raided the saloon of morris feinberg 1621 south wabash avanue and took a girl known as katie vaiaire into custody the vaiaire girl is said to be the one woman of all the companions of robert teddy webb slayer of detective peter hart who could exert any real influence over the bandit the feinberg saloon is directly under the flat of michael cas sella in whose home detective hart was murdered the vaiaire girl admitted to the officers who captured her that she knew frank mcerlane a member of the webb band of automobile robbers and that she was friendly with webb other characters in the levee district have said the vaiaire girl was the real sweetheart of webb and that he would in the end return to ber after detective payne had taken the girl to the bureau she was bundled into a taxi cab and rushed to the hyde park station to be held it was said for questioning by captain patrick j lavin and lieutenant hogan she is to be confronted by belle hastings and cassella at the station this morning koetters wanted as slayer seen in south race man saj%the met suspect in saratoga hotel killing in charleston s c john b koettÂ«s wanted for the mur der of mrs emma kraft on november 14 nt the saratoga hotel is now at charleston 8 c i have talked with him that statement was made to lieutenant zimmer of the detective bureau last night by george m palmer who says he has just come from charleston the police of charleston have been informed by wire i was running a book on the races said palmer i knew koetters through the bets he made he was living at a hotel there with a girl named elsie la retta he was going under the name of george m price finally he lost all his money and wanted to borrow from me he admitted he was koetters palmer was shown a picture of koet ters and identified it as that of the man he knew at charjeston 20 lost as schooner goes down off panama j twelve passengers including priest die two survivors resch shore i i sp.cul cable to the examiner j colon panama feb 6 by the siuk jing to-cay of the schooner granada off | greytown twenty persons are known to i have been drowned and the death list may reach twice that number among ithe kiiown dead are twelve passengers one jof whom was rather antonio a priest well known in the zone ; the captain of the schooner and most of his crew went down with the vessel j two survivors were seen floating ashore ! but they have not been reached to give the story of the accident ineffectual at tempts to get in communication with the wireless station at blneflelds have been luiade at intervals all evening i from best information the wreck took place in the estuary of the san juan the scene of severn disastrous accidents in the pest few years most of the crew | were uatlves of central america mrs.clinch smith about to hewed dangerously ill ; former Chicago girl made widow by titanic disaster 1 stricken in london suitor at her bedside ; a sylvestre clafford michi * gan fiance in constant at j tendance at her hotel soma cable to the examiner london feb 6 mrs james clinch ! smith of new york formerly bertha lud ; ington barnes of Chicago and a widow . through the titanic disaster is seriously ill at the grand hotel here it ls stated that she is a victim of phthisis and little ' hope is held out for her recovery the illness of mrs smith following so â– soon upon the world-stirring tragedy ln which she was a conspicuous figure prob ably will bring to a close a new romance ' of her life iu which another had a dra i matic close with the death of her husband [ then he went down with hundreds of other brave men in the sinking of the giant liner mrs smith was shortly to marry albert sylvestre clafford of adrian mich mr . clafford who is at present in london is deeply distressed over the illness of mrs [ smith and is constant in attendance at her hotel in order to tisit her whenever her condition will permit him to be re 1 celved even for a few minutes it is be , lieved that if her condition shows improve ! ment the wedding will be hurried iu order ! that they may travel together in the hope of restoring mrs smith to health lived in paris for years for years mrs smith whose husband was very wealthy has made her home abroad chiefly in paris she was fond of music and art while her husband was de ' voted to the hunting held and the lite of a country squire and could not be won away from his historic home in smithtown long island where he maintained his stables and kennels and entertained in lavish style the long separation of mr and mrs smith led to a report that there would be a legal separation but each denied that there had even beeu a thought of such actiou mr smith waited in his long island home with his town house in new york closed and boarded up for the time when mrs smith would tire of music and art and rejoin him in this country then early last year he went abroad for the purpose of wooing his wife again and winning her consent to return to smith . town j...e suit of the husband was successful he was overjoyed and told the good news to all his friends in paris he left mrs smith packing up in her paris home when he sailed for america on the titanic to prepare for her home coming death prevents meeting mr smith was one of the happiest of the gay company aboard the great liner | when she was speeding westward then came the crash in the dark and mr i smith in company with other men of his i stamp saw the lifeboats with their bur den of women pull away as they waited death on the deck of the sinking liner j in paris mrs smith read the dread news that girdled the world and put two great ' countries in mourning the name of her > husband was in the roll of the dead the < i shock prostrated her later she made a 1 i voyage across the sea to attend memorial ' i services for ht-r husband at smithtowu ' ! then in company with her brother nei i son ludington barnes she paid a visit ' to her old home in Chicago there she ( announced her intention of making her i home in paris and on her return to new | 1 i york gave instructions to let the town ] < | house that had coine to her through her j i i husband's will leaving her the bulk of his ' j?^.000.o0o estate < back in paris mrs smith found a sym pathetic friend in mr clafford who vir â– tnally makes his home abroad he was ' very attentive and it became known to ' their friends in society in paris and lon â– don that they probably would be married j i at tho end of the widow's period of mourn i ' tng mrs smith's heaith began to fall ' and ou a visit to london a few days ago * she was stricken mr clafford hastened hers when he heard the news both he ! and mrs smith"s friends hope that tha . diagnosis of the physicians may pi-ove \ wrong and tbat she may be restored to ' health senator cullom is ill washington feb t friends of sen ator shelby m cullom of Illinois oldest member of the senate in point of service j and next to the oldest in years ; were | alarmed to-day at reports of his illness \ the senator left the senate yesterday will ; a se ere cold and last night was unable j to attend tho dinner given in his honor j by representative william b mckijiiley of j Illinois to the republican members 1 of the Illinois delegation although dr ' â€¢/,. t sowers who is attending senator pullom announced that his patient will be out in a day oi two apprehension was filt that complications might develop due ' to the 'â– â– senator's age scuator cullom 1 in his eighty fo'jrth year v ' noted beauty arrested will sue for 150,000 gustav myers accused mrs j h otter declares rich insurance man has per secuted her suits for damages aggregating 150,000 will be filed to-day in consequence of the arrest last night of mrs jessie hildebrandt otter at a fashionable apartment house at 4120 prairie avenue the woman is the wife of j wortham otter she is only twenty-four years old and so beautiful that she has been compared favorably with ot ter's first wife who was miss jouett lee one of the tasters who were called the keutucky beauties among whom was linda lee thomas wife of e r thomas the noted new york clubman the charge against mrs ottor is font she stole 240 from the purse of gustav myers in the wellington hotel on de cember 10 1012 behind mrs otter's sweeping declaration that she never was with myers in the wellington hotel there lies a strange story of alleged persecutions and the basis of the 150,000 damage suits to be filed io-day a telegram received last night by the examiner . from its correspondent at el reno okla gave the first public inkling in Chicago of the peculiar actions of myers her arrest expected it was learned then fcr the first time that mrs otter was arrested in el reno on myers complaint but that she was re leased after several days because myers refused to furnish the funds necessary to extradite her shortly after midnight last night mrs otter with her husband and a party of friends stepped out of the apartment house it 4128 prairie avenue mrs otter was j a i once placed under arrest by detectives ! stephen 1 ijarry and frank j kynn she | fainted when she was shown the warrant and it became necessary to take her into a house near by while her husband pre pared to get a bondsman i am not in the least surprised by this arrest said otter i had expected it ' the hour selected for it however doesj seem strange 1 as for the arrest i know all about it and so do ray lawyers oustav myers has : been for weeks traducing slandering and persecuting my wife i shall hie three suits against him the first will be for an attempt to alienate the affections of my wife the second will be for false and mrs jessie hildebrandt otter noted beauty who was arrested on a charge of talcing 240 from rich insurance man wife sees ii man in film scene discovers husband believed lost in woods marching in Chicago parade â€¢â– i â€¢ lansing micb feb 6 while there was a temporary lull in business at the nickelodeon where she was employed as cashier mrs mary brownell of st charles paused for a minute a few days ago to look at the picture that was being thrown upon the canvas the scene was a pic torial review of the big republican parade held in Chicago during the republican convention last summer in the front rani of thc marchers there was a face that appeared familiar and to mrs brownell whose husband was sup posed to have been lost in the north woods while following a deer trail several years ago it brought a ray of hope again and again she watched this par ticular figure as thc film was shown and finally she became convinced that the one marcher at the bead of the column was the husband she had mourned as dead a ; tiny section of the film showing the best i likeness of the man was brought to lan i siug by representative nash and was en larged by a local photographer the result was startling and represen ; tative nasi declared to his legislative i friends that there w-ns absolutely no mis taking the identify of the missing ; browuel it is thought that days of exposure and hunger iu the north woods caused brownell's mind to become deranged and that when finally rescued he had uo knowl edge of liis name or previous home it is plunued to send the enlarged pv ture of the missing man to police agencies and newspapers in all parts of the lulled states in an effort to locate bun mrs brownell was a bride of only a few mouths when her husband who was a popular railway employe at st charles disappeared searching pusses were organ lied and thousands of dollars were spent in an effort to locate him or at least ind the body all efforts along this line failed and it was generally believed that brownell waa dead a tew weeks after brownell's disappearance a baby was born and the child has grown to believe that its father's body is resting beneath tho pine trees of the north - harrison gives council bill which will insure nonpartisan elections judiciary committee expected to back mayor's measure which abolishes party circles prevents corruption and insures fairness to all i salient features of bill for nonpartisan elections 1 the act will be in force only in such cities and villages as adopt it by a referendum vot e 2 party circles party names and party platforms are prohibited from being printed upon the ballots to be sed at any primary or election for municipal officers including judges of city courts and the municipal c ourt of Chicago 3 the election of judges of city courts including judges of the municipal court of Chicago are to be held in april on the same day with the election of all municipal officers 4 primaries for the nomination of all municipal officers are to be held four 4 weeks before the election 5 persons desiring to have their names printed upon the primary ballots must file a statement of candidacy together with the petitions of not less than two 2 per cent nor more than four 4 per cent of the total number of ballots cast for municipal officers at the last precedin g municipal election 6 provision is made for a canvass to verify the fact that the petitions for nomination were properly signed by duly quali fied electors 7 persons receiving a majority of votes at the primary will b declared elected this obviates ths necessity of pre with the election for that particular office 8 the ballots will be so printe d and distributed that each candi date for each office will appear at the top of the ballot as nearly as practicable an equ al number of times throughout the primary and regular election 9 the bill as drafted does not in any manner interfere witn the election laws now in force in the state of Illinois it is de signed that if it is adopted b y any city or village its provisions will not supersede the electi on laws now in force in such cities and villages and in respect to those features not touched upon by this draft the general election laws will remain in full force and effect the nonpartisan election bill drafted at the instance of mayor harrison and intended to remove all party designations from municipal elec tions work reforms in the primary lav and strengthen the judiciary was received by the city council last night the bill was referred to the judiciary committee the next council meeting was set for friday night so that the committee may consider thai bill and report at that session it is hoped that the legislature may act upon the bill in time for it to be submitted to the people at the april eleo tion under the proposed law the party circle would be eliminated and ail municipal officials elected solely on a basis of efficiency and experience this would eliminate not only the present party names but any other party names which might be used to designate groups supporting any set of can didates it is further intended to do away with the evils and scandals which have followed the present system of primary nomination by petition tho new law would have the signature of each voter signing the petition of a prospective candidate before the primaries entered on a single card frauds bring drastic punishment these would be arranged as a card system as to wards and precincts drastic punishment is provided for the use of false signatures and for other frauds this system would provide for the first time an opportunity to i scrutinize primary petitions with any hope of results in presenting the bill to the council mayor harrison said this council has for many years been the most efficient and progressive municipal legislative body i have known in our nation to my mind it would come with peculiar force for your honorable body to take action in enabling Chicago to join in with pioneers among the great citizens of the united states in abandoning the wornout methods of the past is it not time to turn our faces to the light and give Chicago a city gov ernment modern up to date and in thorough sympathy with the advanced thought of the day i subscribe to the belief that our cities will never have thoroughly effi i cient local government until their officers shall be elected on the sole b , i3 u j of individual capacity training and fitness t | would divorce jurists from politics the bill would not become operative in any city until adopted by i'^mfl i citizens by a referendum vote the mayor recommends that later a bill i be presented taking all judicial officers out of politics by a similar method v i a person desiring to become a candidate before the primaries must 1 : produce petitions signed by not less than 2 or more than 4 per cent of the i [ voters of the governmental unit in which he is a candidate the minimum 1 here is four times the number of signers now required this is to prevent a flood of candidates who induce a few persons to sign petitions thus clogging the ballot a limit on the number of names is fixed to prevent a candidate receiving so many signatures that there are none left for other candidates if a primary candidate receives at the primary a majority of the votea cast for the office to which he aspires he is declared elected lf none has a majority the two highest candidates are the candidates at the election thii system will materially shorten the ballots both at the primary and at elec tion provision is made for the rotation of the names of candidates on fjio ballots so that each candidate shall have his name at the op of his column continued on 2d page 4th column j "~ hicago and vicinity â€” generally fair friday and â– st saturday not much change tl in temperature moderate c aj&7 Â»Â» * westerly winds a^j-stsll itange of temperatures jester r4__3_r2ji highest 22 n'^r^^sa lowest 6 ~Â» mf \ average 14 i c lj - every day the want ads in the ex aminer bring together those who hava wants and those who can supply â€¢ the wants if you want re sults put your ad in the examiner phone main 5000 4^k the association of american adrei fcra'jj timers has examined and certified to hji_r the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained in the association's report only are guaranteed association of american advertisers ho ssoo 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